I’ve been working on Wallshader and thought some of you might enjoy it.

You pick a shader, play around with the colors and settings, and use it as your wallpaper. You can leave it animated or grab a frame as a still image. There are presets to start with, and you can save your own too.

It works with Kitty as well, so you can put still or animated shaders behind your terminal. Both desktop and terminal animations keep running after you close the app.

The UI is GTK 4/libadwaita, and the effects come from Paper Shaders. Animated desktop wallpapers need GNOME 50 on Wayland; still wallpapers work on older versions too.

It’s open source, with downloads and setup instructions here: github.com/stonega/wallshader

Curious to hear what you think, especially if you try it on a different setup.

That's it, that's the post.

Original Post: [Mock-up] Collapsible Quick Settings/Notifications by Tobias Bernard

GNOME Contributor Atlas shows a very high number for bug reporters in 2006 and 2007. What is the story behind this exceptional number? Was there an anonymous reporting tool, where every bug report had its own unique user or where there really that many people reporting bugs?

Is the drop afterwards related to the popularity of Ubuntu? And the fact that most bug reports landed in Ubuntus bug tracker instead of GNOMEs?

Edit: Evolution and Files (nautilus) each have more than 10k contributors in 2007.

Apply customizable GPU-powered shader effects to your GNOME desktop, including CRT scanlines, VHS distortion, RGB shifts, and more.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/11353/shader-effects/

No new widgets this time, but lots of polish:

Full Libadwaita: The entire setup now exclusively uses Libadwaita.

Refined Typography & Readability: Adjusted font sizing across the "Quotes", "RSS Feed", and "Today History" widgets for a much cleaner, consistent look on the desktop.

Layout Improvements: Fixed text overlapping issues by optimizing scroll areas where needed (e.g. History), and stripped down the RSS widget to clean headlines that open directly on click.

Grid Customization: Last but not least, the desktop grid size is now fully adjustable.

Thank you for the feedback!

repo: https://github.com/pelach/grid-desktop

Hey everyone,

I'm having a frustrating issue with GNOME on Fedora, and I'd really appreciate some help fixing it without reinstalling my system or losing any personal data.

System and goal

* OS: Fedora Linux * Desktop environment: GNOME * Display protocol I want to use: Wayland * Display manager: GDM

What happened

My system was booting normally until I attempted to install X11 session components using:

sudo dnf install gnome-session-xsession

After this, my system stopped booting into the graphical desktop. Instead, it gets stuck on a black screen with a single **non-blinking underscore cursor**. The screen becomes completely unresponsive, and I have to reboot.

I originally suspected an X11-related issue, but I want to keep using Wayland.

What I've tried

1. Booting into text mode by adding the following kernel parameter in GRUB:

   systemd.unit=multi-user.targetThis works, and I can log into a TTY.

2. Checking installed packages and GNOME session files. The following components were present:

   * `gdm` * `gnome-shell` * `gnome-session` * GNOME and Wayland session files

3. Reinstalling the following packages:

sudo dnf reinstall gdm gnome-shell gnome-session xorg-x11-server-Xwayland

1. Testing GNOME Shell directly from the TTY:

gnome-shell --wayland

**This successfully launched the GNOME desktop.** This makes me think that at least part of the graphics stack and GNOME installation is working.

1. Checking GDM's logs. The previous boot showed repeated errors along the lines of:

   GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of display failures reached. Giving up.

2. Checking GDM's configuration and restoring the graphical boot target. GDM is enabled, but the system still freezes at the non-blinking underscore during graphical startup.

Current situation

* I can boot into a TTY using `systemd.unit=multi-user.target`. * GNOME Shell previously launched successfully when run manually with Wayland. * GDM repeatedly fails to register its display session. * Starting GDM manually causes the same black screen with a non-blinking underscore, forcing me to reboot. * I want to restore normal automatic GNOME login using Wayland. * I want to preserve my existing installation, files, and configuration wherever possible.

Is there a safe way to restore the normal GNOME Wayland login without reinstalling Fedora?

I'm happy to provide command output and additional system details. I'd especially appreciate a systematic troubleshooting approach rather than a full reinstall.

Thanks

So this is a file manager called Loaf which I found on reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/hyprland/comments/1x8qsra/comment/phn2wqe/?context=3 . This is originally meant for hyprland i believe, but i wanted it on my GNOME desktop, as im very satisfied on how it looks, but there is this bar thing at the top, with the name and 'x' on the top. Is there any way to remove this?

I’ve tried using it before, but I found it exhausting to constantly rely on keyboard and mouse combinations in GNOME for tasks that I could accomplish with a single click in Windows-like desktop environments such as KDE or Cinnamon. Am I doing something wrong?